Copyright litigation /
- 1st ed.
- UK : CPI William Clowes Beccles, 2010.
- x, 496 p. : 25 cm.
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Cocyrights Litigation use to be quiet an exotic subject-scriptwriters suing film producers, a famous artist complaining to an art magazine, a singer claiming plagiarism of his song. These times are over. With the arrival of an endless number of media for reproducing and distributing images and sounds, copyright infringement is everywhere and the number of litigations, both before civil and criminal courts, is skyrocketing worldwide. Newspaper are now full of stories about cases concerning peer-to - peer, software copying, unlawful downloads of protected material. We may well say that copyright litigation has gone mainstream .